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Overview of the events of 1858 in literature
Overview of the events of 1858 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1858 .
Events
Edward Sothern as Lord Dundreary January 3 – The English critic John Ruskin first meets at her London home 10-year-old Rose La Touche , who becomes his muse.[ 1] April 29 – Charles Dickens embarks on his first professional tour giving readings from his works. This will involve 129 appearances in 49 towns throughout the British Isles.[ 2] May 15 – The third Royal Opera House in Covent Garden , London, designed by Edward Middleton Barry , opens, having been rebuilt after its second destruction by fire in 1856.June 18 – Henrik Ibsen marries Suzannah Thoresen , in the same year that he becomes creative director of Oslo 's National Theater.September – Charles Baudelaire 's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine .
October 15 – The farce Our American Cousin Tom Taylor is first performed at Laura Keene's Theatre in New York City, with the American Joe Jefferson in the title rôle and the English actor Edward Askew Sothern as Lord Dundreary .[ 3] unknown date – Khachatur Abovian 's historical novel Wounds of Armenia : Lamentation of a PatriotVerk Hayastani ), written in the Yerevan dialect in 1841, appears in Tiflis a decade after the author's presumed death; it is seen as the first Armenian novel[ 4] Eastern Armenian literary work.[ 5] [ 6]
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 22 – Beatrice Webb (Beatrice Potter), English political writer (died 1943 )January 24 – Constance Naden , English poet and philosopher (died 1889 )March 12 – Adolph Ochs , American newspaper publisher (died 1935 )April 1 – Gaetano Mosca , Italian political scientist and public servant (died 1941 )April 15 – Émile Durkheim , French sociologist (died 1917 )June 20 – Charles W. Chesnutt , American writer (died 1932 )June 25 – Georges Courteline , French dramatist and novelist (died 1929 )July 24 – Wolfgang Kapp , Prussian journalist (died 1922 )August 2 – William Watson , English poet (died 1935 )August 3 – Paul Sabatier , French religious writer (died 1928 )August 15 – E. Nesbit , English children's author (died 1924 )[ 10] November 20 – Selma Lagerlöf , Swedish writer (died 1940 )[ 11] December 26 – Owen Morgan Edwards , Welsh historian and educator (died 1920 )
Deaths
February 13 – Hermann Heinrich Gossen , German economist (born 1810 )February 26 – Thomas Tooke , English economist (born 1774 )April 22 – Robert Stephen Rintoul , Scottish journalist (born 1787 )May 3 – Auguste Brizeux , French poet (born 1803 )May 12 – Georg Benedikt Winer , German theologian (born 1789 )May 17 – Frank Forester , English novelist and sports writer (born 1807 )June 3 – Edward Moxon , English poet and publisher (born 1801 )June 28 – Jane Marcet , English writer of introductory science books (born 1769 )November 3 – Harriet Taylor Mill , English philosopher (tuberculosis, born 1807 )[ 12] November 15 – Johanna Kinkel , German writer and composer (born 1810 )[ 13] December 18 – Thomas Holley Chivers , American poet and physician (born 1809 )[ 14]
References
^ Hewison, Robert (2004). "Ruskin, John (1819–1900)" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/24291 . Retrieved 2014-03-19 .(subscription or UK public library membership required) ^ Hobsbaum, Philip (1998) [1972]. A Reader's Guide to Charles Dickens https://archive.org/details/readersguidetoch00hobs/page/270 ]. ISBN 978-0-8156-0475-4 . Retrieved 2012-04-20 .^ a b Theater Week ^ Hacikyan, Agop Jack ; Basmajian, Gabriel; Franchuk, Edward S.; Ouzounian, Nourhan (2005). The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the eighteenth century to modern times . Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 213. ISBN 9780814332214 ^ Nichanian, Marc (2002). Writers of Disaster: Armenian Literature in the Twentieth Century . Princeton, NJ: Gomidas Institute. p. 87. ISBN 9781903656099 ^ Kazanjian, David (2003). Loss: The Politics of Mourning . Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 144. ISBN 9780520232365 ^ John Broderick Lynaugh (1974). The Forgotten Contributions and Comedies of Dion Boucicault ^ Leo Hamalian; James Vernon Hatch (April 1992). The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938 ISBN 0-8143-2142-9 ^ Pronko, Leonard Cabell (1 April 1982). Eugene Labiche and Georges Feydeau ISBN 978-1-349-16731-9 ^ "E. Nesbit | English author" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 31 March 2019 .^ "Selma Lagerlöf | Swedish author" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 24 April 2020 .^ A. C. Grayling; Andrew Pyle (2006). The Continuum encyclopedia of British philosophy ISBN 978-1-84371-141-4 ^ Monica Klaus (2008). Johanna Kinkel: Romantik und Revolution ISBN 978-3-412-20175-3 ^ Hugh Ruppersburg; John C. Inscoe (15 August 2011). The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature ISBN 978-0-8203-4300-6
